Campus Notes: Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Dr. Robert S. Sherwin is named as chief of endocrinology
Dr. Robert S. Sherwin has been appointed chief of endocrinology in the Department of Internal Medicine at Yale-New Haven Hospital (YNHH) and the Yale School of Medicine.
Sherwin, the C.N.H. Long Professor of Medicine, has been an attending physician at the hospital since 1974. He is also a consulting physician at the VA Connecticut Healthcare System in West Haven.
Sherwin directs the Yale Center for Clinical Investigation and the Diabetes Endocrinology Research Center. He is the principal investigator of the Clinical and Translational Science Award at Yale, the largest research grant awarded to the University.
Yale graduate student to be honored for work with mosquitoes
Allison Carey, a Ph.D./M.D. candidate in Yale’s interdepartmental Neuroscience Program, is one of 13 graduate students from North America to be honored by the Basic Sciences Division of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center for original and significant research by young scientists.
Carey will receive the 2010 Harold Weintraub Graduate Student Award May 7 at a scientific symposium held in Seattle.
Carey was honored for her work for characterizing odor receptors in malarial mosquitoes working in the lab of John Carlson, the Eugene Higgins Professor of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology. The lab discovered a way to use genetically engineered fruit flies to study which odorants, including elements of human sweat, mosquitoes respond to. The findings, reported in last month’s issue of the journal Nature, could lead to a new generation of mosquito traps or repellants.
The Weintraub Award was named after Harold M. Weintraub, a renowned molecular biologist and founding member of the Hutchinson Center’s Basic Sciences Division, who in 1995 died from brain cancer at age 49.
Rüdiger Campe appointed chair of German department
President Richard C. Levin announced the appointment of Rüdiger Campe, professor of Germanic languages and literatures, as chair of the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures. His term will be for three years, effective July 1.
Brigitte Peucker, the Elias W. Leavenworth Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures, will serve as acting chair for Fall 2010 while Campe is on leave.
